Summer Help

Tommy, a college friend of our daughter's, came out from Pennsylvania to work in the vines this summer. The vineyard has never looked better.

It's been a warm spring, the berries are in inflorescence (flowering) right now, we're trimming leaves & positioning shoots to allow maximum morning sun in the fruit zone. It's early but shaping up as potentially a terrific season.

Indoor/Outdoor Living

Patio Weather

Hard to get anything done.

Under the Pergola

Blue skies, 80 degrees, soft east breeze...
Exquisite.

Camas Cove Cellars

Meet Dennis & Nancy Parr, owners of Camas Cove Cellars here in Moses Lake. Dennis and Nancy are, I believe, the original pioneers of Moses Lake viticulture, having established their small estate vineyard in 2004. They are also lovely and interesting people; we've had some great conversations sitting amidst the oak barrels late on a Saturday afternoon. Drop in or, if you're on the lake, boat in. They have one of the few dockside tasting rooms in the country. 911 Camas Place in Moses Lake, just south of I-90. www.camascovecellars.com

Wildflower Season at Cayuse Moses Lake

Phlox, larkspur and balsamroot, I do believe.

Open Space

Everyone always asks what we have planned for the open space. (In addition to the pastureland below the ridge, there are about 40 acres of dedicated open space up on the plateau.)

The Cayuse community is designed around this bloc of open space. When the community is built up, the open space will always preserve the sense of spaciousness, the "prairie community" feel that makes Cayuse seem like another world even though it's just minutes from town.

It may be an acquired taste, but the natural, undisturbed steppe is beautiful in its own way. The mixture of sagebrush, bunchgrass, rocks and (this time of year) wildflowers is a beautiful palette arranged more subtly than any landscape architect could mimic. I think it's a huge asset to have this natural buffer preserved in the midst of our community, and I'm sure folks will come to love it as much as I do.